Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 94
"All over," said the wild swan, who flew across the sea to the east.
Who acts: wild swan · What happens: say, fly · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild swan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 over | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 over | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 over | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 over | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swan | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 swan | amod |
| 9 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swan | acl:relcl |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 east | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 east | det |
| 18 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wild swan | over property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the wild swan | the sea | to the east result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to east=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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